Live and Let Live

by Catharine Maria Sedgwick

LIVE AND LET LIVE

OR,

DOMESTIC SERVICE ILLUSTRATED

BY THE AUTHOR OF

"HOPE LESLIE", "THE LINWOODS", "THE POOR

RICH MAN AND THE RICH POOR MAN", &c.

"And whereas the Turkish spy says he kept no servant because he would not have an enemy in his house, I hired mine because I would have a friend".-- Cowper

NEW-YORK

HARPER & BROTHERS, 82 CLIFF-ST.

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1837

TO MY YOUNG COUNTRYWOMEN —

THE FUTURE MINISTERS OF THE CHARITIES OF HOME,

THIS VOLUME IS DEDICATED

BY THEIR SINCERE FRIEND,

⁠THE AUTHOR.

CONTENTS.

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Chapter I.
	9
Chapter II.
The least of two Evils	13
Chapter III.
Looking for a Place	18
Chapter IV.
Leaving Home	34
Chapter V.
Going to Service	43
Chapter VI.
More Rules than right	53
Chapter VII.
To cure, or to endure?—that is the Question⁠	72
Chapter VIII.
Reform	93
Chapter IX.
Bona fide	100
Chapter X.
The Visit Home	106
Chapter XI.
All goes wrong	110
Chapter XII.
The Scene changes	121
Chapter XIII.
Charlie's Mother	132
Chapter XIV.
"Call again!"	141
Chapter XV.
Truth and Falsehood	152
Chapter XVI.
A Detection	158
Chapter XVII.
False Appearances	165
Chapter XVIII.
A new Friend	174
Chapter XIX.
A Happy Family	181
Chapter XX.
A Day at Mrs. Hyde's	192
Chapter XXI.
Truth will Prevail	204
Chapter XXII.
The Conclusion	211